dc.contributor.author | McLigeyo, SO | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2013-04-05T08:51:10Z | |
dc.date.available | 2013-04-05T08:51:10Z | |
dc.date.issued | 1994 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Afr J Health Sci. 1994 Nov;1(4):185-190 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://erepository.uonbi.ac.ke:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/15417 | |
dc.description.abstract | Renal biopsies were evaluated in 422 patients with nephrotic syndrome at the Kenyatta National Hospital between 1982 and 1993. Three hundred and fifty five (84.1%) of the patients were less than 30 years old (range: 7 months to 66 years; mean=SD: 28.4 - 9.2 years). The commonest histological lesions were mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis (25.1%), minimal change nephropathy (17.5%) and focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (15.2%). Poststreptococcal aetiology was implicated in diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis while use of skin lightening cosmetics appeared to play a role in the aetiology of minimal change nephrophathy in females. No aetiological role was apparent for hepatitis B virus, human immunodeficiency virus, malarial or schistosomal infection. All patients with minimal change nephropathy, focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and mesangial proliferative glomerulonephritis were treated with steroids and/or cytotoxics with a variable response | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.title | Gromerular diseases in Kenya-another look at diseases characterised by nephrotic proteinura | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
local.publisher | Department of Medicine, University of Nairobi | en |